Steve Wasserman is as charming as his eloquent letter, he is a raconte, a cultural essayist and he talks to us about it Tell me something, tell me something, even if it's a lie. He takes the reader on an exciting journey through the world of books with personal considerations about Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, WG Sebald, Christopher Hitchens and more. In thirty magnificent essays that were originally published in various publications such as those New republic and the nationThe American Conservative and the ProgressiveThe Village and the economistPresent Waterman provides an exciting representation of the awakening of sensitivity and a lively mind. Together, they reveal the depth and width of his enthusiasm and the selection of politics, literature and tumult in a world in upheavals. This includes the remarkable story of a book trade owner who did not allow him to allow the books that he wanted, to his courageous attitudes of the Black Panthers to his clever assessment of the rapidly changing world of publishing. Here, as Joyce Carol Oates notes: “Probably the best, short history of Cuba and the legendary Fidel Castro; beautifully composed laulogies for two close friends, Susan Sonontag and Christopher Hitchens; Sharpensamental comment for Daniel Ellsberg; an incredibly open interview with WG SABD.
As you read this, the topic of social media is again the headlines with droves of people who flee from Twitter/X to drive to Blue Sky and Threads. In 2019 we invited Andrew Marantzto talk about his book, Antisocial: online extremists, techno utopiers and the kidnapping of the American conversation. Marantz was embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social media entrepreneurs who, from naive and ruthless ambition, all traditional means to receive and transfer information. The second is the world of people, which he refers to the “Tor -Crasher” -the conspirators, white supremacists and nihilists who use experts for social media to promote their corrosive agenda. Anti -social Areas on the whole from the first mass books to the trendy hashtags of the present; From secret meetings from neo-fascists to the press room of the white house and pursued, how the unthinkable thought and then how it becomes reality.Anti -social shows how the boundaries between technology, media and politics were deleted, which led to a deeply broken information landscape – the landscape in which we are now all living. Marantz Shows how alienated young people have led the rabbit hole of the online radicalization down and how the fringed ideas from the anonymous corners of social media spread through the President's Twitter feed to cable television.